Hallucinogens Quotes:

The peak of empathogens can be characterised as earthly paradise in comparison to the heavenly paradise of LSD and hallucinogens of that category.

- Claudio Naranjo

topic: Hallucinogens, Paradise, Lsd

The most powerful hallucinogen in this planet is called Love. Highly Addictive! You will see and hear things that don't exist!

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Powerful, Hallucinogens, Most Powerful

It's my belief that one of the unconscious reasons which underlies the odd attitude of the establishment toward hallucinogens is the fact that they bring the mystery to the surface as an individual experience. In other words, you do not understand the psychedelic experience by getting a report from Time magazine or even the Economist. You only understand the psychedelic experience by having it.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Attitude, Facts, Hallucinogens, Psychedelic Experience, Time Magazine

For unknown reasons, there is a tremendous concentration of psychoactive plants on the South American continent. The South American continent has more known hallucinogens than the rest of the planet combined.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Hallucinogens, Reason, Plant

In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Data, Sticks, Hallucinogens

I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Believe, Hallucinogens, Shamanism

It's the only hallucinogen I know, where if it's made right, the next day, or the day after the experience, you actually feel better than if you hadn't done it.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Feel Better, Next Day, Hallucinogens

Hallucinogens are a value changer...like it or not, it changes your values, it opens up windows (doors of perception.)

- George Carlin

topic: Doors, Perception, Hallucinogens, Doors Of Perception

The hallucinogens produce visionary states, sort of, but morphine and its derivatives decrease awareness of inner processes, thoughts and feelings. They are pain killers; pure and simple. They are absolutely contraindicated for creative work, and I include in the lot alcohol, morphine, barbiturates, tranquilizers the whole spectrum of sedative drugs.

- William S. Burroughs

source: William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

topic: Pain, Simple, Creative, Hallucinogens, Morphine

Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.

- Bill Hicks

source: "Sane Man". Documentary, Comedy, 1989.

topic: Funny, Dream, Witty, Matter And Energy, Trippy

I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off. You either love them or you hate them, and that's because they dissolve world views. And if you like the experience of having your entire ontological structure disappear out from under you, if you think that's a thrill, you'll probably love psychedelics.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Hate, Thinking, Views, Hallucinogens

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

- Salvador Dali

topic: Artist, Drug, Hallucinogens, Hallucinogenic Drugs

And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an eco-sensitive hallucinogenic-based culture on Earth unless we fuse these dichotomous opposites. It is only in a coincidencia oppositorum, a union of opposites, that does not strive for closure, that we are going to find cultural sanity. And this is the thing that the entheogens, the hallucinogens, deliver with such clarity and regularity. They raise paradox to a level of intensity that no one can evade.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Opposites, Feet, Space, Hallucinogens

Raising a child is like taking care of someone who's on way too many shrooms, while you yourself are on a moderate amount of shrooms. I am not confident in my decisions, but I know you should not be eating a mousepad.

- Ron Funches

topic: Confidence, Children, Parenting, Hallucinogens, Edibles

DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Powerful, Dmt, Stronger, Hallucinogens

The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to a certain point. That is, they open psychic areas that would not otherwise be available to the writer. But I feel that once these areas have been opened and the writer has reached them, he is able to get back there in the future without the drug.

- William S. Burroughs

source: Source: www.stopsmilingonline.com

topic: Thinking, Psychics, Drug, Hallucinogens, Consciousness Expanding

The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies in our psychological makup that the psychedelics mitigate. The plant hallucinogens dissolve habits and hold motivations up to inspection by a wider, less egocentric, and more grounded point of view within the individual.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Motivation, Views, Drug, Hallucinogens, Egocentric

On the other side of the spirit veil, I spend more than a little bit of time researching the hallucinogens. I personally believe ayahuasca is also the greatest natural healing agent, period.

- Chris Kilham

topic: Believe, Healing, Ayahuasca, Hallucinogens, Alternative Medicine

Milla Jovovich introduced me to [anthropologist and author of the Don Juan series of books involving shamanic peyote rituals] Carlos Castaneda because I was all into the hallucinogens for a minute.

- Michelle Rodriguez

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Book, Peyote, Juan, Involving, Hallucinogens

Take care with manufactured chemicals, certainly. Your safety and long term health are more important than anything. Yet don't forget that if you grow even a dozen different plants, you are surrounded by chemistry. Inside their cells even the most ordinary plants creates potent fungicides, insecticides, irritants, balms, hallucinogens, sedatives, nerve toxins, cell repair stimulants, lures, repellents... you name it. Treat all plants with respect!

- Janet Macunovich

topic: Cells, Names, Long, Insecticides, Irritants

Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're no longer at home in it. We need to dilute it. We can't drink it straight. And God is the same. Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Home, Soul, Too Much, Hallucinogens, Overdose

The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it posible with their help, and after suitable internal and external perparation... to evoke a mystical experience according to plan, so to speak... I see the true importance of LSD in the possibility of providing material aid to meditation aimed at the mystical experience of a deeper, comprehensive reality. Such a use accords entirely with the essence and working character of LSD as a sacred drug.

- Albert Hofmann

source: "LSD: My Problem Child". Book by Albert Hofmann. Chaoter 11: "LSD Experience and Reality", www.psychedelic-library.org. 1980.

topic: Character, Emotional, Reality, Outer Worlds, Mystical Experiences

We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses.

- Terence McKenna

source: Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

topic: Self, Order, Alarms, Hallucinogens

I really think there is a very large distinction between synthetic and naturally occurring drugs. ... I think that these plants 'take people' as much as people take the plants. ... When you take one of these ancient, ancient hallucinogens you are locking in to the morphogenetic fields of all the people who ever took it.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Thinking, People, Drug, Hallucinogens, Synthetic

A lot of things occurred to me with shamans in Peru.There were a number of different kinds of experiences that you learn from doing ritual and taking ayahuasca [a common tropical forest hallucinogen] is the key to understanding the native consciousness and perception of the world with the Peruvian shamans that you wouldn't get unless you had been with them, but every shamanic tradition, including the Native American tradition of medicine and cleansing ritual, like the Sun Dance or the sweat lodge.

- Fred Alan Wolf

source: Source: www.edgemagazine.net

topic: Native American, Ayahuasca, Sweat, Peruvians, Hallucinogens

One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires.

- Tom Robbins

topic: Book, Doors, Intellectual, Hallucinogens

I don't use recreational drugs, except for cocaine, hallucinogens, and nitrates.

- Robert Mapplethorpe

topic: Artist, Drug, Use, Hallucinogens, Recreational Drugs

I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Culture, Pheromones, Levels, Hallucinogens

Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master of derangement, he's been bringing it for years. This time, though, it's different. He's burst into the clear and is taking seven-league strides across the literary landscape.

- Laird Barron

topic: Years, Cities, League, Hallucinogens, Burroughs

Most of the so-called illegal drugs have vastly increased in use, despite billions of dollars spent suppressing them. I believe 750,000 Americans are arrested every year for possession of cannabis. I mean that's 750, 000 lives damaged by that arrest process. It's a crazy, crazy system. It's playing into the system that the hallucinogens are grouped together with addictive drugs, which they are not. But addictive or not it's our responsibility as adults to make decisions and it's not the states' right to do that, in my opinion.

- Graham Hancock

source: "Interview with Russell Brand, Daniel Pinchbeck, & Graham Hancock". www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2012.

topic: Crazy, Believe, Mean, Hallucinogens, Suppressing

I cannot stress this enough: do not take powerful hallucinogens before going to a Holocaust memorial.

- Nathan Rabin

topic: Powerful, Stress, Memorial, Hallucinogens, Holocaust Memorial

I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness... When I speak of drug addiction I do not refer to keif, marijuana or any preparation of hashish, mescaline, Banisteriopsis caapi, LSD6, Sacred Mushrooms or any other drugs of the hallucinogen group... There is no evidence that the use of any hallucinogen results in physical dependence.

- William S. Burroughs

source: "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness". William S. Burroughs' introduction to his book "Naked Lunch" (pp. 199-201), 1960 edition.

topic: Marijuana, Mushrooms, Addiction, Hallucinogens, Hashish

I was a sound engineer, and all of these gurus and shamans would come, and I would record the workshops they were teaching. And I took part in a shamanic journeying workshop, and this woman leading the workshop had brought Ayahuasca, which is a Peruvian hallucinogen and contains DMT.

- Larkin Grimm

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Teaching, Dmt, Ayahuasca, Peruvians, Hallucinogens

It's possible to see the whole human growth movement of the 1970s as a wish to continue the inward quest without having to put yourself on the line in the way you had to when you took 250 gamma of LSD. And I think all these other methods are efficacious, but I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Thinking, People, Growth, Hallucinogens

No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical language that is unconscious but profound. We do not yet understand how hallucinogens transform the message in the unconscious into revelations beheld by the conscious mind.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Ideas, Profound, Mind, Hallucinogens, Conscious Mind